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[email protected] | Laura Pollock

UK 'putting Scotland at frontline of war economy' with Mossmorran munitions plan

The former ExxonMobil's ethylene plant at Mossmorran in Fife (Image: PA)

PLANS for a munitions facility at Mossmorran are part of a “concerted effort to militarise the Scottish economy”, it has been claimed amid calls for the site to instead provide long-term green jobs.

Anti-war campaigners and politicians have spoken out against plans lodged by defence contractor TBG International to turn the site of the former Fife ethylene plant at Mossmorran into a weapons components factory which could handle explosives and munitions.

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